It is now Uncle Sam’s second largest sweatshop.”21

In early 1942 he opened an after-hours dive bar called Club Nosotros off the corner of Avenida Eduardo Conde and Calle Martino. It was right across the street from the Villa Palmeras Cemetery and, more importantly, just half a mile away from Camp Las Casas.

For Juan it proved what he already knew: that film was the most powerful, and the most dangerous, art form in the world. As

General Smedley Butler in 1935—War Is a Racket.

José Celso Barbosa, president of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico.

especially liked Adolphus because he was black.

Riggs had just come from Nicaragua, where he’d been advising a budding dictator named Anastasio Somoza, who, one month later, on February 21, 1934, would assassinate Augusto Sandino.

in the

He confirmed that the Treaty of Paris was essentially a real estate closing and a violation of international law with regard to Puerto Rico.13